The camera as historian
Subtitle: amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918
By: Elizabeth Edwards
Series: Objects/histories; Objects/histories
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780822350903; 9780822351047
Subjects: Photography; History
Table of contents: title: "Sacred monuments of the nation's growth and hope" : amateur photography and imagining the past; title: "A credit to yourself and your country" : amateur photographers and the survey and record movement; title: Unblushing realism : practices of evidence, style, and archive; title: "To be a source of pride" : local histories and national identities; title: "Doomed and threatened" : photography, disappearance, and survival; title: "To quicken the instincts" : photographs as public history; title: Afterlives and legacies : an epilogue.